Founded a 501(c) nonprofit organization dedicated to the progress and proliferation of education in science, technology, robotics, engineering, the arts, and mathematics for underserved communities in the Bay Area.Develop organization's infrastructure and business plan. Oversee all departments, curricula development, and volunteer recruitment. Develop and teach robotics and chemistry curricula for elementary and middle school students. Manage finances for hackathons (eg: SM Hacks) and funding for 6 competitive robotics teams, 3 of which have competed at the international level.Partner with several organizations to bring workshops, activities, and classes to different demographics. Examples include the Fremont Cultural Arts Council (Fremont, CA), Best Friends Learning Center (Fremont, CA), All Star Academics (Phoenix, AZ), and Celsius and Beyond (San Francisco, CA).

Coordinated all administrative tasks for running the course, including hiring, department- and student-facing communications, and managing internal deadlines within the teaching team. Graded 200+ homework submissions weekly.

Rewrote computer science curriculum for grades 6-10, resulting in a 20% increase in student satisfaction with department offerings. Restarted international and domestic trip offerings for students grades 8-12 for experiential learning. Collaborated with Director of Teaching and Learning to redesign senior capstone projects. Team mentor for FIRST Robotics Competition team 4990Educator participant/mentor for Shanti Alliance, a program focused on bringing DEIB values into school cultures.

Courses: Introduction to Robotics, Robotic Manipulation & InteractionIn addition to Lab TA responsibilities (temporarily taught virtually using simulations in Gazebo in Fall 2020), as Head Admin TA I handled all logistics for the course, complicated by a remote learning semester. Implemented the first "design challenge" style final project for the course and connected with industry partners for sponsored projects and guest lectures.

Course: Designing Information Devices and Systems IILab TA: debugged and taught labs that introduced introductory electrical engineering concepts to freshmen. Concepts included: Debugging, DAC/ADC, controls, SVD/PCA. By the end of the course, students build a voice-controlled car that can follow commands for driving forward, turning left, and turning right.Coordinated a contest for students sponsored by Texas Instruments, the first offering in two years.

Course: Introduction to RoboticsLab TA: debugged and taught labs that teach practical robotics using ROS, Rethink Robotics's Sawyer/Baxter, and Willow Garage's Turtlebots to undergraduate and graduate students. Concepts included: SLAM, inverse & forward kinematics, computer vision, and controls. Held office hours for additional support.

Adviser: Allen YangDeveloping an AR game to encourage ambulation exercise for seniors. Serve as an adviser to the content and development team based on experiences volunteering at the hospital and other work for assisting seniors.

My Honors project, partnered with STREAM Education and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland, is to alleviate boredom and social isolation in teens in isolation units. We interviewed pediatricians, Child Life specialists, teens from around the world, and previously long-term hospitalized patients. There were many challenges to navigate: HIPAA, limited hospital resources, and post-treatment side effects to name a few. We pivoted several times before prototyping, testing, and deploying our solution.

The Fung Fellowship is geared towards identifying and solving health/wellness problems that affect young children, older adults, and veterans through human-centered design processes. I work with a diverse team of fellows to reach out to communities to understand their needs and desires; formulate feasible and impactful solutions; and pitch these solutions to industry leaders and experts.Semester 1 - Partner organization: Purple Asparagus (Chicago, IL)Purple Asparagus aims to improve childhood nutrition by introducing young kids to new foods in novel, creative ways. After intense customer engagement, we identified and targeted the gap that exists between school and home education. We prototyped The Digital Spear, a portal where parents can engage and continue to support healthy eating habits at home through recipes, randomized healthy-eating challenges/leaderboards, and scrapbooking the family's adventures in trying fun, new foods.Semester 2 - Partner organization: SmithGroup (San Francisco, CA)SmithGroup challenged us to create a multi-sensory therapy experience for dementia-care homes. We performed literary reviews and interviewed caregivers to get a better sense of our user base, since directly interviewing our users was not an option. Our final product was a station with thematic plug-and-play boards where seniors could engage in past or new experiences utilizing sight, hearing, and touch. Based on the item they picked up on the board, they could learn a new skill (eg: knitting) by learning from the video on screen (and with any family members present) or be transported to a different experience (eg: a familiar baseball stadium).

Adviser: Laura Hallock & Ruzena BajcsyAssist with experimental setup for graduate student Laura Hallock, who is looking at muscle deformation and acoustic myography as alternate ways of controlling upper-body prosthetics. CAD and 3D print necessary custom interfaces for human-robot interaction. Currently helping adapt horse acoustic myography equipment for human use. Investigating EMG systems to increase SNR and process data. Dataset of human muscle deformation and associated forces is now open-source.

Adviser: Adams DudleyAssist various research projects working to improve transparency in the healthcare industry. Use MATLAB, Python, and R to manage and analyze data from a variety of sources. Use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash to create graphics and animations to help convey policy benefits to the public.Projects: Do Drug Price Increases Actually Matter? (submitted to NEJM), Predicting Patient Mortality

Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Lab under Professor Kamal SenDeveloped MATLAB scripts to aid in multidimensional analysis of how simultaneously changing 5 parameters of sound affects the firing rate of 50 different neurons in the auditory cortices of mice. Collaborated with diverse group of students from around the world. Presented at the 2015 Boston University Research Internship in Science and Engineering Symposium.